APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

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Sea squirt
Sand encrusted polyclinid
- in under-boulder pool 1

Specimen above found with others in an under-boulder pool on the extreme lowershore at Sennen Cove, Cornwall, 25.05.17.

Sea squirt
Sand encrusted polyclinid
- dorsal view 1

Sea squirt
Sand encrusted polyclinid
- in aquarium 2

Sea squirt
Sand encrusted polyclinid
- under a lowershore rock 1

Sea squirt
Sand encrusted polyclinid
- under a lowershore rock 2

Sea squirt
Sand encrusted polyclinid
- under a lowershore rock 3

Specimens found at Battery Rocks, Penzance, Cornwall. 07.02.11; Fistral, Newquay, 16.10.15; Newlyn, 26.02.15; and at Sennen Cove, Cornwall, 16.06.14 and 24.05.16.

Specimens were either found under rocks on the lowershore, on algae in lowershore pools or attached to bedrock in pools under large granite boulders at the extreme low tide level.

Please note there are more species of sand encrusting polyclinids than just Polyclinum aurantium and Synoicum incrustatum. It is therefore advised that sea squirts like this are recorded as 'sand encrusted polyclinid' if their identity cannot be established / verified. This is the advice of Sarah Bowen the author of the Seasearch book, Sea Squirts and Sponges of Britain and Ireland.

The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help

people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.